Tensions between China and the United States are nowhere near as bad as they were a year ago, after the United States intercepted a Chinese spy balloon transiting the country. But this “short-term thaw with China’s leaders” should not lead to complacency, warn former Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger and U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher. “The United States shouldn’t manage the competition with China; it should win it,” they write.
Both Pottinger and Gallagher are leading voices on foreign policy in the Republican Party. Pottinger served as Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser between 2019 and 2021, and Gallagher has spearheaded the GOP’s hawkish stance on China in Congress. Together, they outline what they think winning would look like—and what it will take for the United States to get there. “China isn’t aiming for a stalemate,” they write. “Neither should America.”
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